What is the social Express app?
The Social Express II is an animated app for boosting kids’ social-awareness skills. Each lesson presents daily interactive social situations using video modeling, “hidden rules,” and suggestions for how to solve problems in daily life.
How much does social Express cost?
Pricing structure: Free to try, Paid (While the app is free to download and try, the full curriculum requires a subscription that costs $14.99 per month or $69.99 per year.) Publisher: The Language Express, Inc.
How can I learn social skills online?
How to Teach Social Skills During Distance Learning
- Role-Playing. Use your virtual lesson time to review social skills that can be role-played.
- Use Pre-Made Videos.
- Get Students Talking.
- Use Books.
- Play Games.
How do you teach SEL virtually?
Tips for Implementing Social-Emotional Learning in a Virtual Classroom
- Make Your Teaching of SEL Skills Explicit. Perhaps because SEL skills are so essential, teachers sometimes forget that they must be taught.
- Teach Growth Mindset.
- Build Community.
- Teach Coping Mechanism.
- Assign Self-Care.
- Involve Families.
- Be Human.
How do you teach social skills over zoom?
Ideas for Teaching SEL via Live Video
- Feelings Role Playing. You can adapt this Feelings Lesson for live video.
- Calm Down Techniques. Try live-teaching some calm-down techniques:
- Use Puppets to Teach Social Emotional Skills.
- Read Aloud About Social Distancing.
- Teachable Moments.
What’s wrong with SEL?
SEL ignores spiritual, physical, and societal well-being. It doesn’t encourage students to learn outdoors in nature and become stewards of the environment. It has nothing to say about physical fitness. Nor does it address young people’s spiritual hunger to feel part of something greater than themselves.
Why is SEL controversial?
In the Penn-Harris-Madison schools in northern Indiana, controversy erupted last spring over the district’s SEL program. Some parents objected because the high school program included three lessons related to diversity and equity — one about microaggressions, one on implicit bias and one on anti-racism.
How do you teach students to manage their emotions?
Here’s how to make those skills a staple in your classroom.
- Connect the idea that emotions drive behaviors.
- Be patient.
- Set the tone first thing in the morning.
- Help students understand emotions in real time.
- Check in all day long.
- Build a word wall.
- Designate a calm-down spot.
- Take the focus off of academic success.
How do you teach social skills virtually?
Why are people against SEL in schools?
It is extremely clear that Casel and curriculum like Second Step want to use SEL to reprogram our children into social justice activists for particular causes, causes that make them question objective reality, reject familial cultural or religious beliefs, favor socialism over capitalism, and push them to believe that …